This is the opening theme song to the new anime “Attack on Titan”! My enjoyment of anime has cut down drastically in the last few years mostly due to a diminished ability to commit to animation with so few frames per second. “Attack on Titan” is a perfect example of everything that is both right and wrong with anime and it has thoroughly grabbed my attention. It has the extremely long winded drawn out internal monologues that take up half an episode with an overdramatized story but it also has moments of intense awesomeness and interesting plot lines that you WILL NOT find anywhere else. It has sometimes terrible/sometimes perfect animated characters and cliff hangers that span multiple episodes filled with flashbacks. Oh an lots and lots oh whining. To be fair though, the horror that these characters face merits a lot of that crying. What is absolutely flawless is the anime’s music headlined by this excellent, extremely epic over the top piece by Linked Horizon.
Revo, a japanese composer and leader of the group Sound Horizon, specializes in creating epic fantasy operas told in the form of multiple intertwining stories on giant concept albums. He also writes music under Linked Horizon which focuses its efforts on anime and video game soundtracks. “Guren No Yumiya” may be the single greatest opening to an anime of all time (this is making me really want to make a ranked list about great anime openings) with a huge brass section, a chanting choir, multiple vocalists and a guitars that support a climb into heaven. The song is so epic that it borders on parody of epic music. There has been a huge amount of videos on youtube putting this theme to non-epic things in order to make them more epic. Think the guile music goes with everything series on steroids.
I made the mistake of watching a couple episodes of the show back to back before heading off to work and my brain literally replayed the trumpet and choir parts OVER AND OVER in my head for my ENTIRE 8 hour shift. It kind of went like this:
And this is my favorite so far of the goes with everything videos:
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